Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Backbeat
Pages: 224
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-8084-7 • Paperback • April 2025 • $24.95 • (£18.99)
James Campion is a syndicated columnist and contributing editor for the pop culture magazine, the Aquarian Weekly, where he’s reported on and interviewed several and varied musical artists and reviewed concerts and albums for twenty-three years. His long-form music essays are featured in the webzine Dog Door Cultural. His work has also appeared in NY Newsday, North County News, Hackwriters, Huff Post, among other periodicals. He is also the co-host of the popular music podcast Underwater Sunshine with Counting Crows front-man, Adam Duritz. The two host an annual music festival in NYC by the same name. Authored two Backbeat Books: Shout It Out Loud: The Story of KISS’s Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon and Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon